CSC Working Paper 30

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AUTHOR/S:

June Prill-Brett

DATE:

2000

Description:

This paper presents preliminary findings on the practice of adult jar burial in the Central Cordillera based on field research carried out in October to December 1969 and March 1970. Four of five burial sites investigated around Alab, Bontoc, Mt. Province were found to contain burial jars characterized by the large orifice, barrel-shape body and a conical shape cover specially made for primary jar burial.

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CSC Working Paper 29

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“Thoughts on Indigenous Knowledge” and “The Shaping of a Cordillera Women’s History Research Project.”

AUTHOR/S:

Julius Mendoza and Athena Lydia Casambre

DATE:

2000

Description:

The first of two papers in this compilation discusses Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and focuses on three topics: the nature of IK, a reflection on an ethical problem created by the scientific perspective in the study of IK, and a questioning of the status of Anthropology particularly, in a global set-up.

The second paper presents where the author has been and where she is headed with regard to the research on a Cordillera women’s history. She refers to three other works to discuss this.

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CSC Working Paper 28

TITLE:

The Community Resource Balance Sheet

AUTHOR/S:

Arturo Boquiren and Rowena Boquiren

DATE:

1999

Description:

The Community Resource Balance Sheet (CRBS) system has been developed not merely to operationalize the notion of area balance sheet (which takes into account both social and environmental factors of development) and resource accounting. More than this, it is intended to bring such operationalization to and methodological development from, the grassroots level. This working paper discusses the utilization of the CRBS, the establishment of this system in a community and the current utilization and work in the CRBS.

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CSC Working Paper 27

TITLE:

Bio-Physical Effects of Land Use Conversion in Paoay and Mount Data

AUTHOR/S:

Celia Austria et al., Rogelio Colting et al.

DATE:

1999

Description:

The effects of land use conversion on some biophysical aspects of the environment in Barangay Paoay, Atok, Benguet and Barangay Mount Data, Mt. Province were examined in this study. The first part of this presentation focuses on the composition, dominance and diversity of vascular plant species and the similarity of the remnant montane forests in the two communities. The data is analyzed together with previous studies in relation to the massive conversion of the montane forest into commercial temperate vegetable farms. The second part deals with the soil and water quality of agricultural and forest lands in Paoay and Mount Data. Data on the soil quality, pesticide residues, organic matter, pH, temperature and conductivity, collected over one cropping cycle are presented.

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CSC Working Paper 26

TITLE:

Process of Policy Formulation in Resource Management

AUTHOR/S:

Arturo Boquiren and Michael Cabalfin

DATE:

1995

Description:

This paper characterizes the process by which policies on the use and control of resources, particularly natural resources, are made and implemented. The authors identify the characteristics of groups and institutions that make and implement policies and discuss the manner by which these groups are organized and mobilized.